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Announcements

Fusion Energy Seed Grants Launch New Interdisciplinary Collaborations at University of Texas at Austin

The projects bridge physics, engineering and computational sciences to tackle big challenges for fusion energy.

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McDonald Observatory

UT Austin Astronomers to Play Leading Role in Newly Launched Roman Space Telescope

For its first year, the university won more resources to use the telescope than any other university in the country.

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Research

New Study Could Lead to Safer, More Effective Antibody Therapies

Jessie Zhang, George Georgiou and others are learning how to keep antibody drugs from binding to an unintended receptor.

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UT News

UT To Lead NSF Center Studying How Robots and People Learn To Live and Work Together

A 5-year collaboration between 6 universities and industry partners will place assistive robots in everyday human environments.

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Features

Six Lessons from a Legendary UT Science Teacher

On moving day, a veteran scientist and teacher looks back on lessons learned in the college.

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Accolades

Students Win Science Award for Bio-Inspired Fabric Sealant

College of Natural Sciences students developed an innovation that could mean safer ways of making clothing water-resistant.

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Research

Physicists Reconstruct the Collision That Launched a Runaway Black Hole

When two black holes became one, it was launched out of its galaxy at astonishing speed

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UTeach Institute

The University of Texas at Austin Launches National Center for STEM Education

A 20-year success with UTeach expands to address persistent STEM teacher shortages and improve U.S. STEM education.

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Research

Scientists Reveal Hidden Structure of a Quantum Fluid

They are the first to observe a tunable Bose-Einstein Condensate made of excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor.

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Features

5 Questions with Archer Graduate Fellow Christina Lildharrie

A Ph.D. student in neuroscience, she is exploring science, service and public policy in the nation’s capital.

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